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Monday, February 22, 2016

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our February meeting! We had a fabulous turnout for the wool applique tutorial. If you haven't made it down to Mountain Creek Quilt Shop in Greenback, we highly recommend it! Thank you, Samantha and Janet, for guiding us through a fun wool applique mug rug project (designed by our own Emily Doane) -- and for bringing a pop-up shop!

Sign-ups for the Thoroughly Modern Mini Swap have ended. This is a great community-building swap for MQGs across the state -- Memphis Area, Music City (Nashville), Knoxville, and Chattanooga.
Minis are due at our May meeting and we will vote on our favorite
modern quilt and award a prize before you ship your mini to your partner.

Sarah's friendship stars

Spots
for our quilt show, "Traditional Craft, Modern Perspective," are filling
up so please complete the form to submit your quilt for consideration. Thank you to everyone who
is going to show a quilt and help with other aspects of the show. We'll have LOTS
more info coming soon!

Elizabeth's value-based baby quilt

QuiltCon West was this weekend in Pasadena. We will recap all of the winners at our March meeting.

Quilt of Valor 24" blocks are due at our March meeting, and we'll assemble the tops during our sew-in. You can also bring personal
projects to work on. We'll play LRC with 3 fat quarters with
Easter/Spring feeling (think pastels, polka dots, flowers). We hope to see many familiar faces and a few new ones too.

Taylor's salvaged quilt top turned finished quilt

We are looking into hosting a workshop with Shannon Brinkley, who has a
great technique called scrappy applique. You can find her on Instagram,
@shannonebrinkley, and online at www.shannon-brinkley.com. We'll update the guild when we know a day and price for the workshop.

Rosalind's amazing (and huge!) Amish-inspired quilt

In
January we were short on time and forgot to set our quilting
resolutions for the year, so we did it this month. We'll pull out our resolutions in December to see how everyone did -- and prizes will be
awarded, of course!

Friday, February 19, 2016

We are excited to announce that the Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild has a
quilt hanging in the QuiltCon Charity Quilt challenge this week in
Pasadena. This year’s theme, was “Improv with Intent.”

In July 2015, the KMQG entered into an artistic collaboration with local artist Sarah Shebaro, co-founder of Striped Light,
a letterpress studio in Knoxville. During a delightful guild meeting
at her studio, Sarah gave a demonstration of her printmaking process and introduced us to her most recent series of prints.

Inspired by the shapes and forms of Sarah's work, the guild took a
limited challenge palette of white, off-white, sunflower, tomato red,
light teal, grey, and black and let each member try her hand at
improvisational 11-x-17-inch blocks, echoing the form of Sarah's prints.
Members incorporated elements of the prints, triangles, stripes to
create poster-sized blocks that were clearly inspired by Sarah’s prints.

Over
the next several months and through a retreat and conversations on
Instagram, guild members assembled their own improvisational blocks.

We gathered in November to assemble the quilt and settled on a design that echoed the form of posters hanging on a wall. Jennifer Grace pieced all our blocks together, Pat Pike did the quilting, and Emily Doane bound and labeled it. Thank you to all who had a hand in this charity quilt!

Inspired by our process, Sarah Shebaro is undertaking another series of work based on our quilts, and the collaboration will continue until a local unveiling with our guild’s show at the Striped Light Studio in May2016. Stay tuned for details on our show!